The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
Names govern the world.
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
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